I have the latest version, and clear my cache often, and had bragged about the 'lightness' and 'speed' of Chrome for years.

Something has changed - the slippery slide downhill started when I got a computer with Windows 7 - suddenly almost every site 'cannot be found' - most of time just hitting the return key (insist) it will then go to the site.

Other times it takes numerous attempts - many times it takes so long it times out.

In Googles attempt to track every movement (even though I have set it not to) there has always been a caching issue - on the one hand one of the things I loved - It will remember usernames and passwords (you don't want to save) until you clear your cache or reboot your browser - it lets you return easily (in my case this because I have to test a number of conditions before (if all valid) I return later to do the actual work).

- But on the other hand this is imbecilic because it will get hung up and insist that the link is only accessed through that point - no chance of blank so you might input a different login sequence - clear the freaking cache to get around this and you lose everything for the day you have hoped to cache!

Ok - so it gets worse! Recently I switched security software - Chrome is absolutely crippled (it's not the security software's fault - it works fine for FireFox)

As follows = every page that has a video - it's a blank white screen for a full minute to load - sometimes it times out completely - the only thing that helps like in the forum? To click something at the top - blank space - to WAKE CHROME UP - then going back to the thread you are waiting to load - there it is.

- Many pages that have a lot of graphics - like my game club site - really it takes 60 seconds to load - you can't move the cursor or scroll bars - you are frozen in time - then the page loads and is accessible - but when you click something to go to a another page on the site, frozen again - 60 seconds to load.

oh well - it has always been 1/2 firefox and 1/2 chrome for me in any day because one thing or another is horrible about the other - so it is lesser of two evils. (and wouldn't use IE to this day unless both ff and chrome died)

I feel like it is the 1980's where you just knew when you hit return you could do something else while you were waiting to 'execute' a command! LOL - it was H-E-L-L and somethings never change. I do not want to wait but am held hostage...

Something has changed - the slippery slide downhill started when I got a computer with Windows 7 - suddenly almost every site 'cannot be found' - most of time just hitting the return key (insist) it will then go to the site.

Did you tried updating to the latest version of Chrome? I have Windows 7 on my main computer and since I updated it works great! Maybe even remove Chrome and then do a fresh install?

I also recently downloaded the Opera browser and it looks pretty smooth. I haven't used it much but I've always believed that you can't have too many browser options. If one gets a virus so bad that you can't get online, you simply switch to the other.